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This is the fourth straight box of nickels that has born a reasonable error coin for me. This time it is a moderate MAD. The box also bor two buffalos, one War Nickel, and a Singapore 20 cent piece. Here is the MAD, enjoy...  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Very nice example of a MAD coin if the reverse is normal.
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Bedrock of the Community
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You can see where the reverse didn't get the full strike where the obverse die was so misaligned on "OF AMERICA".
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Pillar of the Community
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How far out can a MAD get. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the furthest out of alignment you have seen, where does this coin sit in the range?
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Very nice MAD.  David |
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David - This got me wondering. Over the few boxes of nickels you've looked at, I'm sure you have a few specimens of interest. Care to share? (new thread perhaps)
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In regards to your question of how far a MAD can get, the worst I've seen was where "in god we trust" was about 3/4's missing. I personally have never seen an example where it was entirely missing. I've noticed a good percentage of the ones I have seen that are as misaligned as yours are also partial collars.
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There are a couple monstrous misaligned dies out there. Some are about 40 - 50% misaligned. There's a dime also that only a small corner of the obverse die was able to strike. I dont have pictures on me... but they're on the interweb somewhere.
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in reference to the "partial collar" comment. I was sort of hoping mine would fall into that category, but no such luck. When I compare it directly to a normal coin it is exactly the same size and roundness...no distortion
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I was wondering how you foynd this nickel... do you actually search for coins (and have a specific nickel you looking for) as in bank cashing for coin rolls or do you just check your change when you make a regular everyday purchase?
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Very nice error...just went through some nickel I received today and found a few possible errors as well as my oldest 1939 (outside of my buffalos) and a 1944 silver (my first one) so today has been a good day for nickels !! Good luck to all us coin hunters !!
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Here is my coin roll searching strategy.... I try to fill a dansco from circulation and to keep my interest going, especially when I am down to just the hard dates/mm to find, I also look for errors. What I start out with is I buy a box of halves and search it, then I exchange $100 of halves at a time for a box of nickels (a box of nickels costs $100), then once I have gotten my five boxes of nickels from the halves box, I then trade in at the bank $25 of nickels for a box of cents. Once I have traded in all my nickels for cents I cash them in at the local coinstar ( it just isn't worth my time to count and roll cents when coinstar only charges $2.50 fee per box of cents and none of my banks around here have coin machines ). Oh and I do have a Ryedale, so yes I keep all my copper cents! Once I have gone through my ten boxes of cents, Istart over again with a box of halves. I find this strategy keeps the bank happy as iIam never ooverwhelming them with huge amounts of any one coin type at a time.
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The largest US MADs struck by intact dies come in at around 50%. However, I know of one nickel struck by a broken, misaligned obverse die that comes in at around 90%. However, I can't eliminate the possibility that it was a loose die fragment that was driven into the planchet by the intact portion of the die. The largest MAD from an intact die that I've seen is on an Indian 2 rupee coin, where it amounted to about 85%.
Naturally, for any die that is more than 10% misaligned, it would have to be the entire hammer die assembly that shifts.
Error coin writer and researcher.
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12/14/2014 10:12 am
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Posted 12/13/2014 12:38 am
